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    82 years ago

    I think the middle ground would be people thinking critically and not blindly trusting anything. It’s the mindset of ‘accept as truth what comes from this authority’, be the authority Alex Jones or Obama, that mindset needs to go.

    • @AccidentalLemming@lemmy.worldOP
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      182 years ago

      That sounds great in theory, but people generally don’t have the time and qualifications to check every statement that gets made on news sites. This is exactly why fact checking sites like Snopes.com exist. People look to trusted authorities to examine political/scientific claims because they don’t have the means to.

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        52 years ago

        The people writing the stories certainly have the time and should have the qualifications…

        • @AccidentalLemming@lemmy.worldOP
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          92 years ago

          Or someone could be a content farm making a quick buck off fake headlines that trigger people. If not the government, who will stop them?

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            32 years ago

            I agree there should be legislation in place to be able to take actions against those kinds of people, but at the same time the government isn’t the internet police.